Then there’s the issue of creating a new universe out of whole cloth. Large scale sci-fi is the opposite of that. The feature film format rewards tight timeframes and contained locations. Star Wars.īut I don’t think, since Star Wars, that I’ve read a single large scale sci-fi screenplay that’s worked.
#Code de robotek movie#
That’s what got me into this whole movie thing in the first place. But will he be enough to take out an entire invading alien species? I guess we’ll find out!Įven though I tell screenwriters never to write these large scale sci-fi screenplays (because they’re big and unwieldy and hard to manage), I LOVE the idea of large scale sci-fi. Hunter, not unlike Will Smith in Independence Day, becomes the best Veritech fighter. We jump to the Arctic, we jump to Beijing, we jump to Taiwan. What follows is a worldwide battle if there ever was one. It’s not going to be here until next week? Awww, come onnnn!” Wait, what are you talking about it’s not Prime. “Can you please send me one giant alien city with a couple of hundred transforming jet robots so I can protect my planet? Thank you. Sort of like an intergalactic Amazon order. This race sent us these giant cities because they knew the Zentraedi were coming to wipe us out. What we eventually learn is that the Zentraedi were fighting some other mysterious alien race halfway across the galaxy. Then, once humanity is gone, the Zentraedi will fly the moon back, re-establishing the tides, then take over earth for themselves. They’ve built giant thrusters into the moon so they can fly the moon away from earth, which will destroy all the tides. The leaders of the planet do a little recon and discover the aliens’ plan. Hunter, who was once a pilot, ignores protocol and jumps into one of the Veritechs to fight off the aliens, which are known as Zentraedi. They start blowing up cities left and right. But one thing is clear – they mean business. How long they’ve been there is anyone’s guess. So let’s just say there’s a healthy dose of conflict in the family.Ībout 60 pages into the script, earth is attacked by an alien entity that’s been hiding out on the dark side of the moon. The two just lost their father recently, and Roy is pissed that Hunter abandoned both of them. He was recruited to come to the city by his military brother, Roy. Our main character is a mechanic named Hunter. The other half are military, there to study the unique vehicles in the city, which consist mostly of transformable airplane/robots called “Veritechs.” Half of these people are mechanics, tasked with fixing everything up. Twenty years later, a global commission has sent a healthy group of individuals to live on the ship. But the one off the coast of North Carolina, while heavily damaged, manages to survive, resting out in the ocean. The ones in Iceland and the Himalayas explode on impact. One in Iceland, one in the Himalayas, and one off the coast of North Carolina. One day, out of nowhere, three giant empty alien city-ships crash into our planet. Maybe this script will provide me with the joy I never received as a child. I know you wanted that really cool robot that all of your friends would be jealous of but here’s a copy of Catcher in the Rye!” I must have asked my parents a thousand times for the Robotech robot and got flat out denied each time. Man, I loooooovvvvvvvved Robotech as a kid. I know we still have to finish up Comedy Showdown, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t stoked for Sci-Fi Showdown!!! And when this script showed up in my Inbox, well, I couldn’t help myself.
Craig Zahler (based on characters/concepts by Shoji Kawamori) Craig Zahler, who currently holds the number 3 slot on my Top 25 with his western, The Brigands of Rattleborge. The project is currently stalled but it’s a property Sony likes a lot so it should get made at some point. At one point, Andy Muschietti (“It”) was tasked to direct. Premise: Two decades after three strange abandoned alien city-ships crash into earth, a mysterious secondary enemy attacks our planet, forcing us to protect ourselves with the crashed vessels’ unique alien tech (robotech).Ībout: Sony has the rights to make a Robotech movie.
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